Il problema del determinismo psichico in relazione all'etica nella psicoanalisi freudiana

This paper analyses a peculiar aspect of the Freudian psychoanalysis: the problem of psychic determinism. To hold Freud as a proponent of rigid determinism is a shared view of both the orthodox psychoanalysts and the critics of Freudian thought. The purpose of this work will be to demonstrate how the Freudian position is itself a problematic position, deterministic but not only deterministic, and at the same time it will try to propose an interpretation of Freudian determinism also in ethical terms rather than exclusively theoretical.[Publisher's text]